Device for binding sheet-music together.



A. F. ENGBL.

DEVICE FOR BINDINGSHBET MUSIC TOGETHER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 18, 1907.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR F. ENGEL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DEVICE FOR BINDING SHEET-MUSIC TOGETHER.

T 0 all whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, ARTHUR F. ENGEL, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Device for Binding Sheet-Music Together, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters in the drawings representing like parts.

My invention relates to sheet music binding devices, and the object of my invention is to provide a handy serviceable and practicable device which can be easily attached to the covers of sheet music at the point of folding, by glue or gummy substance, in such a manner that one portion of the device will protrude through the covers, at the fold, so as to engage with and be attached in like manner to the loose inner leaf or leaves of music.

My invention includes a music binding device, consisting of two circular disks or cutouts of stiffened cloth or other suitable material, preferably round, each disk gummed on one side and both disks fastened together at their diameters by a wire stitch or staple, or thread stitch, in such manner that the gummed surface of one disk is against the ungummed surface of the other disk.

The invention consists in the features, conbination and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a top or side view of a disk of the fabric used for making my binder. Fig. 2, is an edge View of the same, having on one side a layer of adhesive substance. Fig. 3 is a plan view of one side of the completed binder, showing the gummed surface and the clenched ends of the wire stitch. Fig. 4 is a sectional edge view of the binder complete, made of two disks of material as shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a perspective central sectional view on the line AB (Fig. 3), and shows the manner of binding the different leaves together in book form.

In carrying out my invention I provide two disks or cutouts of stiffened cloth or Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed. March 18, 1907.

Patented June 15, 1909.

Serial No. 363,122.

other suitable material, gummed on one surface b, preferably circular in shape, leaving the other surface a, plain. These two disks are inseparably attached, the gummed surface of one against the lain and ungummed surface of the other, y a wire stitch or staple h, which passes through both the disks on the plain surfaces at their diameters, the ends of the wire being on the gummed surface, clenched and close together, as in Fig. 3.

I claim as my invention.

1. Asheet-music-binding-device consisting of two duplicate disks or cut-outs of stifiened cloth or other suitable material, having one surface of each disk gummed, both disks joined together at their centers, with the gummed surface of one disk against and covering the plain ungummed surface of the other disk.

2. A sheet music binding device consisting of two circular disks of stiffened cloth or other suitable material, each disk gummed on one side, attached together at their diameters, the gummed surface of one disk against the plain surface of the other disk, and covering it, substantially as described.

3. In combination in a sheet music binding device two circular disks of equal size made of stifiened cloth or other suitable material, with one surface of each disk gummed, and a wire stitch or staple which passes through both disks at their diameters, fastening them together, so that the gummed surface of one disk is in juxtaposition to the ungummed plain surface of the other disk, substantially as described.

4. In combination in a sheet music binding device two uniform disks or cut-outs of paper, cloth or other suitable material, each aving one surface coated with gum or other adhesive substance, and a wire or thread stitch which inseparably joins the disks or cut-outs together at the center, the gummed surface of one against and covering the plain surface of the other.

ARTHUR F. ENGEL.

Witnesses:

CHARLES I. ENGEL, SALVADOR OARTAINO. 

